Federal Justice Statistics Program: Criminal Appeals Cases in Courts of Appeals - Terminated, 2015 (ICPSR 37343)

Version Date: Sep 26, 2019

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Principal Investigator(s):
United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. Bureau of Justice Statistics

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https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR37343.v1

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Summary

The data contain records of criminal appeals cases terminated in United States Courts of Appeals during fiscal year 2015. The data were constructed from the Administrative Office of the United States Courts' (AOUSC) Court of Appeals file. These contain variables on the nature of the criminal appeal, the underlying offense, and the disposition of the appeal. An appeal can be filed by the government or the offender, and the appellant can appeal the sentence, the verdict, or both sentence and verdict. Appeals may be terminated on the merits or on procedural grounds. Of those that are terminated on the merits, the district court ruling may be affirmed, reversed, remanded to criminal court, or dismissed. The data file contains variables from the original AOUSC files as well as additional analysis variables. Variables containing identifying information (e.g., name, Social Security number) were either removed, coarsened, or blanked in order to protect the identities of individuals.

These data are part of a series designed by the Urban Institute (Washington, D.C.) and the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Data and documentation were prepared by the Urban Institute through 2012. Data from 2013 and on were prepared by Abt Associates.

Citation

United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. Bureau of Justice Statistics. Federal Justice Statistics Program: Criminal Appeals Cases in Courts of Appeals - Terminated, 2015. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-09-26. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR37343.v1

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Funding

United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. Bureau of Justice Statistics

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Restrictions

Access to these BJS-sponsored data is restricted. Users interested in obtaining these data must complete a NACJD Restricted Data Use Agreement available from the ResearchDataGov website, specify the reasons for the request, and obtain IRB approval or notice of exemption for their research.

Restricted Data Use Agreements available on the NACJD website are provided for reference only. Please visit the ResearchDataGov website to download the appropriate Restricted Data Use Agreement and submit your request. Once approved, data may be accessed from a requester secure site via ICPSR's secure download procedures.

Distributor(s)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Time Period(s)

2014-10-01 -- 2015-09-30 (Fiscal year 2015)

Date of Collection

2014-10-01 -- 2015-09-30 (Fiscal year 2015)
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Universe

Criminal appeals cases terminated in United States Courts of Appeals during fiscal year 2015.

Unit(s) of Observation

appellants in federal criminal cases

Data Source

extracts from the AOUSC Courts of Appeals file

Data Type(s)

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Original Release Date

2019-09-26

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Notes

  • The public-use data files in this collection are available for access by the general public. Access does not require affiliation with an ICPSR member institution.

  • One or more files in this data collection have special restrictions. Restricted data files are not available for direct download from the website; click on the Restricted Data button to learn more.